Kingfisher opens Calcutta Training Academy; Indore Academy in March

Calcutta: Kingfisher Airlines opened a training institute in Calcutta on Tuesday.
Kingfisher Training Academy, which will have campuses on Camac Street and in Salt Lake, will offer a six-month course in aviation and a one-year programme in hotel management.
The basic eligibility for admission, which opens on Wednesday, is 10+2.
The institute will focus on both classroom studies and professional exposure.
The fee for the aviation course is Rs 1,00,000 and hotel management, Rs 1,25,000. The institute has tie-ups with banks for education loans.
On job opportunities in the aviation sector, Rajesh Verma, the chief mentor of the Academy and executive vice-president of Kingfisher Airlines, said: “There will be a need for nearly 15,000 to 20,000 additional crew in the next three-four years. It is not a short-lived profession. Managerial jobs can be handled after one is too old to be cabin crew.”
13/02/08 The Telegraph

Indore: The branch of Kingfisher Training Academy Indore is located at Orbit Mall and will become operational likely by the end of March this year.
Kingfisher Training Academy hopes to train at least 3500 candidates over the next three years from Indore. Kunal Vasudev, project head, Kingfisher Training Academy, informed that the first batch of the Kingfisher Training Academy passed out of its Mumbai centre, has been placed successfully in the Kingfisher Airlines, Jet Airways, Spice Jet, Go Air and the Indian Airlines respectively. In the non-aviation sector, KTA has placed its first batch in leading hotels like JW Marriot, Hyatt, Renaissance and the Taj Group, Mumbai.
14/02/08 Central Chronicle, India